The theory behind it, in short order, was to divide liberty--to divide power the better to protect liberty.
The Constitution is a negative document. It is not the Government giving us freedoms.
Our role is to decide cases and controversies between the people under law as it is, not as we would wish it to be.
I think I am the third or fourth most conservative guy in the U.S. Senate by voting record but I am not particularly partisan.
We need a more engaged public.
The President nominates someone to serve on the Supreme Court, and we have the constitutional duty in the Article I branch of providing advi...
I think that this Congress does not function as it should on a broad range of issues.
I worry about what comes next for public discourse broadly.
I think that people who have watched these hearings... know that comments like Leader Pelosi's... are absurd.
I hope that some of the folks on the other side of the aisle... will also speak out against the kind of reckless nonsense.
When they see a final vote... if it is not something overwhelming... we will have in this body done something to further erode the public tr...